Thursday, February 21, 2019

REPUBLICANS WILL TRY TO MAKE 2020 ABOUT SMOLLETT AND SANDMANN, OR SOMETHING EQUALLY TRIVIAL

Dave Weigel on Twitter this morning:



My response:



I could have added "email server management."

If it were the summer of 2020, Republicans might find a way to make the presidential election a referendum on Jussie Smollett and Nick Sandmann, with the eager cooperation of the mainstream media (which is now as obsessed with the Smollett story as Fox News). I can easily see Sandmann, the smirking kid from Covington Catholic, having a speaking role at the Republican convention.

Republicans' main goal going into 2020 will be to find some trivial but potentially embarrassing fact (or pseudo-fact) about the Democratic nominee and work it until it's better known than the Democrat's stand on any issue. The mainstream press will play along. Failing this, the goal will be to find some enemy in the culture who can be hung around the Democratic candidate's neck.

It will happen. The only question is how well it will work.

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